[BusyBox] pre-commit feedback, please
Paul Fox
pgf at brightstareng.com
Thu Aug 4 12:39:36 MDT 2005
> > 0000008 03-16-05 modprobe applet is dependent on having a shell
> > [ patch and new code are big enough that i think this should
> > be configurable ]
i've commited this, with minor cleanup.
> Most of the new size seems to be the fork/exec handling via
> switch statement, and it seems there should be some kind of
> bb_fork_exec_wait() helper function since this isn't actually
> an uncommon thing to want to do. (Have it return -1 if it
> couldn't fork, -2 if it couldn't exec, or the return code from
> wait() otherwise.) You'd think there would already be one, but
i didn't add such a helper, however. i did some grepping and could
only come up with 3, maybe 4 candidates for using such a routine, and
they'd all need some amount of code rearranging to do so.
> libbb just has run_parts.c and vfork_daemon_rexec.c, both of
> which are confusing enough that I'm not going down that
> particular rathole right now. There's a potential cleanup
> here, and it would be good to do it now rather than later.
i agree that such a cleanup would be good, but i also sort of figured it
should be a separate project/commit from closing out this bug/request.
paul
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